The examination we carried out confirmed that in the case of the great majority of public service grades, their pay positions relative to the private sector have not been eroded.
- The benchmarking body, which has ruled the majority of public servants should receive no pay increases this year.
I do not get the same confidentiality, the same fair hearing and the same circumstances in a tribunal as anyone else, so it is not an equal playing pitch.
- Taoiseach Bertie Ahern says he is not getting a fair hearing from the Mahon tribunal.
Our business model is one of very high risk. We dig a very big hole in the ground, spend €3 billion to build a factory in it, which takes three years, to produce technology we haven't invented yet, to run products we haven't designed yet, for markets which don't exist. We do that two or three times a year.
- Intel chief executive, Paul Otellini.
I looked at the faces of all the people, they were astonished.
- Baghdad resident Hassan Zahar after the first snowfall in the city in living memory.
Comparisons with other countries show that it [ the laboratory] has not been able to use science in criminal investigations to its full potential. This has to stop.
- Prof Ingvar Kopp, author of a report into the State's Forensic Science Laboratory, which found that a third of DNA and drug samples submitted by gardaí are not processed because the facility is so poorly resourced.
The US economy in 2008 will be like a cat on a hot tin roof that has already used up eight of its nine lives.
- Economist Stuart Hoffman says the US could be heading for recession, dragging much of the rest of the world with it.
The mission itself will not have the personnel or assets in place to implement its mandate for many months, even in the best-case scenario.
- Jean-Marie Guehenno, UN chief of peacekeeping operations, says more support is needed if the UN mission in Darfur is to have any hope of success.
I believe it's going to happen - there will be a signed peace treaty by the time I leave office.
- US president George Bush, visiting the West Bank, says he thinks Israel and the Palestinians can reach a peace deal in the near future.
Receive him not with flowers or clapping, but with bombs and booby-trapped vehicles.
- US-born al-Qaeda spokesman Adam Gadahn ahead of Mr Bush's visit to the Middle East.
Sir Ed described himself as an average New Zealander with modest abilities. In reality, he was a colossus.
- New Zealand prime minister Helen Clark on the death of Edmund Hillary, the first person to climb Mount Everest.
Over the last week, I listened to you and, in the process, I found my own voice.
- Hillary Clinton, presidential candidate, who upset the predictions of pundits and pollsters to take the Democratic Party primary in New Hampshire.